Message for Monday 17 June 2019

Monday 17 June 2019

\The Magical Universe and the Tarot Calendar/

[The daily lunar data are now being posted at the end rather than beginning of the report]

I get the message that some of you don't like the Sunday forecasts with the Christian Science message attached, and a message from Sai Baba attached, and this time two devotional religious songs. I get the message that some of you hate G*d (or so it appears). But I am Cosmic Piper, not Satanic Piper, and I post what I post and pipe what I pipe.

I am sad that not one person liked or commented on my post for Fathers' Day, which I spent a lot of time on. I knew God was out of favor but didn't know fathers were out of favor too. I guess test tube babies from synthetic sperm and egg will be the next big thing. Who wants parents?

As piped here many times, for those of you who are attentive, another Dark Hermetic Epoch shall begin this Thursday June 20, lasting through August 14. One might call it the Slow Epoch (Mercury is slower then) or the Musing Epoch, the Mystical Epoch, or the Dream Epoch. One might call it the Epoch of the Magical Universe. Let's emphasize its better features. 

I feel that in a way it has already begun. I often feel that the DHE (for short) begins a few days before the mathematically and astronomically correct dates I always give. "Future events cast their shadows before." Anyway on Saturday I departed to a large degree from my planned strict schedule and diet. While walking down a street a large black dog, really large, arrived from nowhere and I petted it and chatted with its owners and then joined them on an outdoor patio. This was an unexpected treat and had all the attractions of the Magical Universe. Another individual then joined us and we seemed to have some surprising connection and chatted together for forty minutes longer. This is typical of what happens often during the DHE.

I dropped some of my planned routine, and it seemed right to drop it.

Sunday was more of the same. I saw in The Stranger, a weekly Seattle publication I rarely read, an event I wanted to attend although quite far from home. Manfully I got there early, but then could not find the location, since the address given was wrong. The Stranger was apropo because I felt like a stranger in a strange town. Finally a stranger on the street whom I asked actually knew where this building was, which amazed me. Finally entering the unmarked building, I found the event was hosted by The Atheist Church, something I was not prepared for! The DHE brings us face to face with things we have not encountered before, "out-of-pattern" things. It was a talk by a woman raised as a Muslim who rejected that religion at the age of 16 and now runs a group which aids former Muslims to make their escape from that religion. This was on June 16, her age when she dropped Islam, and in the Tarot 16 is The Lightning-Struck Tower, and that tower is said to represent formal religions (when they are too narrow). This is magical thinking. You need to learn it during the DHE! The symbols I use here daily, from nineteenth century clairvoyants, are magical, and so is the Tarot Calendar, which I myself discovered. You will not find a book about it. But it is consistent and real. Add 6, for June, to 16 and you get 22, which in the Tarot is 0, The Fool. No doubt Sarah's Muslim parents and family thought she was The Fool for rejecting her religion, and she thought that they were Fools for adhering to it.. This is the power of the Tarot Calendar, it shows what is going on in people. I mentioned The Stranger repeatedly, and that is The Fool again because 0 is the planet Uranus, always strange even to itself. But it was a stranger who showed me how to find the building. It also was the Lightning-Struck Tower because it is under reconstruction! 

June 16 has other correlations. From The Stranger: "What are you doing for Bloomsday? If you haven't made plans yet to mark the date on which James Joyce's mammoth novel Ulysses takes place. (We're not sure we should add this, but apparently Joyce set the book on June 16 to commemorate a particularly significant real-life handjob. Just so you know what you're celebrating.)"  Sorry! That's pretty indelicate. But the 16 symbol has a male and female figure falling from the stricken tower, a sort of indirect symbol of pointless sex, and 0 is Uranus which is definitely the planet of gay sex. (Oh, the the month of Gemini is the month of Hands because Gemini rules the shoulders, arms and hands.) The Fool is what gays have identified with over the centuries and even like to make fun of themselves as well as being sometimes court jesters. (Although in these times they are not so much making fun of themselves any more, as Bret Easton Ellis complains in his book of essays, White. The Fool has a white dog. Well, as you can see, once you open yourself to the Magical Universe the correlations keep multiplying. None dare call it insanity. Ellis wrote his horrible, evil novel American Psycho, about a serial torturer-killer, while living on 13th Street in NYC, over a period of three years, and 13 is of course the Death card.)

Yes there are more correlations: Mayor Pete Buttigieg came out, in South Bend, declared himself gay, on June 16 (you can find the year in his book, Shortest Way Home, I am not going to look it up). He must have chosen that date because of "Bloomsday" because he is known to love the novel Ulysses! That seems to me almost bizarre. 6, June, is The Lovers in the Tarot; 16 the Lightning-Struck Tower; and 0 (the sum of them) The Fool. That is the complete threefold Tarot profile of any June 16. Remarkable that Buttigieg, knowing nothing of all this, would choose that date to "come out." He was of course afraid of being considered a Fool, or worse; or of losing political credibility (falling from the tower) or of having his love (6, The Lovers) regarded as wrong or perverse. These things did not happen, which shows that one can use the potentialities of the Calendar in positive ways.

What about today, Monday June 17? 17 is The Star, sign Aquarius, a nude woman pouring water on the earth from one jar and water into a pool from another. 6 is The Lovers and the sum is 23; you subtract 22 from that (there are 22 cards) and get 1, The Magician. This is also a King of Clubs day and so it is a powerful one and, yes, magical. I leave it to you to figure out what that means for you. It is easy to say "Be your own magical king or queen" but you might need to recognize someone else also as king or queen, or even---could it be?---G*d Himself or Herself! 

{Monday}  /The Magical Universe\

Cosmic Piper

Moon in Sagittarius-->Capricorn

/moon goes void-of-course at 1:32a PT | 4:32a ET | 8:32a UT

(the above moment is the exactitude of the Full Moon of Gemini-Sagittarius)

until it enters Capricorn at 8:14a PT | 11:14a ET | 3:14p UT

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week begins at 12:33p PT | 3:33p ET | 7:33p UT

Message for Sunday 16 June 2019

Sunday 16 June 2019

Jupiter the Paternal Planet: Happy Fathers' Day!

I have been asked what the perigee of Jupiter means. That is its closest approach to the earth which happens about every thirteen months because of the intermingling of their orbits. It happens when Jupiter appears to be opposite the sun in the sky, or in other words, when Jupiter is up overhead about midnight when the sun is directly beneath the earth because of the daily rotation. It was exact on June 12 this year. This explains some of the phenomenon astronomically. 

Most astrologers don't pay much attention to this annual phenomenon. I do not know if it makes the things Jupiter indicates in astrology more prominent. My answer is, it depends on all the aspects Jupiter is forming with the other planets. This time, it is exactly square Neptune in Pisces. That is confusion, uncertainty, religious dispute, disagreement about all kinds of things Jupiterian and Neptunian--religion, mysticism, occultism, doctrines, beliefs, dogmas, and philosophic positions about the ultimate nature of reality. It could also indicate deception in international relations or questions about deception or confusion in spiritual teachers, gurus, priests, pastors, rabbis, and the like. These are "paternal" figures traditionally but of course increasingly women also assume those roles. Because Venus is now starting to oppose Jupiter (from our geocentric perspective) we may experience even more disagreement about such matters through the 23rd, when that aspect is exact, until July 1 when it ends. Your friend or relative just cannot see eye to eye with you about some matter of opinion and that can be painful. We have to find how to continue loving despite differing opinions.

Let's look at something nicer coming up: From July 11 through August 8, Mars in Leo will be trine Jupiter in Sagittarius. This should be a better time for matters of religion, the judiciary, philosophic contemplation or agreement, and the like. There is more concord. People know more definitely what they believe (Mars and Jupiter together are affirmative) but do not feel they have to convince the whole world or be angry with those who differ, because they feel secure in their position and so trust that G*d, or the overall scheme of things, will support them. In addition, the sun in Leo will be trine Jupiter from July 28 through August 16, and Venus in Leo trine Jupiter from July 31 through August 16. Mercury will be slow or retrograde through that period, so the trines should help us to mitigate the usual confusion of those times. That is good news. Youth (Leo) and travel (Sagittarius) are emphasized and could be a blessing when united. The Dark Hermetic Epoch (Mercury slow and retrograde) could make travel complex or slow, yet the uplifting, joy-yielding trines could be sufficient recompense. 

Jupiter has a reputation for indicating the better side of mature males, so is said to indicate "good" businessmen, judges, pastors, CEOs, and so on. (Any planet or its "ruled" characteristics can go wrong sometimes.) These people are currently out of favor and the word "paternal" is not welcome! Paternalism is considered the same as tyranny. But this is not always true.

Let's look for the best in fathers on this their day! 

Here is what must be the most joyful and exalting rendition of a favorite devotional song, Awesome God. (It gains in power and beauty half way through.) 

And here is a moving tribute to the paternal loving Father-God by Dr. John (who passed away a couple weeks ago), God's Sure Good. It gains in stature and effectiveness all the way through and the ending is exquisite. 

{Sunday} Jupiter the Paternal Planet: Happy Fathers' Day!

Cosmic Piper

Sunday 16 June

Moon in Sagittarius

Full Moon of Gemini-Sagittarius occurs Monday at 1:32a PT | 4:32a ET | 8:32a UT

Maternal version of the Paternal God presented by Mrs. Eddy, God the Preserver of Man (and Woman or Humanity)

Message from Sri Sathya Sai Baba 

Message for Saturday 15 June 2019

Saturday 15 June 2019

^Destiny in Hand^

The "battle" shaping up over oil in the Gulf of Oman is connected with Pluto, planet of oil, being opposed by Mars and Mercury from Cancer, a water sign. Ships on the water, or fuel tankers, involved in a feud (Mars) over fuel (Pluto). In personal life, this is the strife or stress of working hard to fulfill ambitions.

There are indications that dominion in career is in fact attainable: "The figure of a woman holding a globe in one hand and a scepter in the other." There is conscientiousness and self-reliance.

If the one big prize you want to win is still not attained, there are other smaller ones you have won.

"Gondoliers in a serenade" bring a symphony of co-operation through sentiment. 

"A man in a boat on a lake" is nicely seasonal, and suggests the joys of aquatic life or entertainment---fittingly, with Neptune in Pisces (water) the focus of a T square, while trined by Mars and Mercury in another water sign. Charubel hints at "the joys of Bacchus" along with this. Okay, but let's not have any boating accidents.

If you go to the hold below, you might open, rather than a bottle, "An old book lying open upon a table, beside it a burning lamp." Jupiter is strong in the daily chart, and in his own sign Sagittarius, randy for philosophy and deep thinking. With the square to Neptune, this is likely to be mystical and somewhat controversial.

You could be creatively selfish, with "A quiver filled with arrows"---your skills, used not to subdue or injure anyone but to win your way. You have prepared yourself for that to an impressive degree. Then, to change the gender of the image, you become that "woman holding a globe in one hand and scepter in the other." The moon is almost full, with heightened consciousness and a sense that one's plans have been well-formed and maybe complete for now.

{Saturday}  ^Destiny in Hand^

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Moon in Scorpio-->Sagittarius

/moon is void-of-course

until it enters Sagittarius at 2:04a PT | 5:04a ET | 9:04a UT

The Full Moon of Gemini-Sagittarius comes very early Monday morning

Message for Friday 14 June 2019

Message for Friday 14 June 2019

~Stress-Impelled Adventure~

Moon in Scorpio

/moon goes void-of-course at 12:47p PT | 3:47p ET | 7:47p UT

until it enters Sagittarius in early hours Saturday

Symbolic degrees warn of anger within the family or close group, "A house on fire at night-time." This is no doubt connected with the close conjunction of Mercury and Mars, both opposing Saturn and Pluto, and the former two in Cancer the sign of home. The "fire" is most likely not real but anger making people within the group hot under the collar. Maybe it's as little as high weather-temperatures making some ill-at-ease. 

Quintiles from Mercury and Mars to Uranus suggest fine sensibilities and scientific research or interest. One might discover something financially advantageous. There is an interest in people and their better qualities.

"Pelicans moving their habitat" is fine as long as one does not want to move, travel or wander because of an unsocial and unreasonable attitude. "I'm outta here" reveals contempt for the place one is leaving. But if one is wanting to use one's native genius in a frontier area, that could be good. It's a bit of a gamble.

TGIF, and "An industrial strike" may mean people are more than usually anxious to get away from their jobs. Dissatisfied, they are protesting and reorganizing. The void-of-course time (above) could be a clue to get one's major work done before then. 

Then "Gondoliers in a serenade" is musical and sentimental.   

One is happy in the company of others and friendships could form. Even if they seem very different, people see themselves in each other. Honest expression is persuasive.  

{Friday}  ~Stress-Impelled Adventure~

Cosmic Piper

P. S.  The "house on fire" symbol seems to be related to this: " India Heat Wave, Soaring Up to 123 Degrees, Has Killed at Least 36

The government warned that the extreme temperatures, which have struck large parts of northern and central India, might continue as the arrival of monsoon rains has been delayed. " --NYTimes

Also, the moon is in the Via Combusta, the Burning Way. 

Message for Thursday 13 June 2019

Thursday 13 June 2019

}Patience and Dowsing{

Moon in Scorpio

< moon in the Via Combusta

Sound judgment and good manners, if without warmth, do not lead to popularity. Loneliness would be improved by a dose of courage concerning things you believe in. 

Conforming to what people expect, on a superficial level, can help you to lift them and yourself up toward a higher level. You may have a link with someone which is a blessing.

Procuring necessities requires persevering effort. You are tired of uncertainties about income but can resolve to be patient and courageous.

Feeling abandoned is not fun. The lonely heart seeks G*d and finds Him (or Her, calling out Mother, Ma, or Abba, Father). 

Knowing what one knows is a consolation. 

"Drilling for oil" means speculating a little but not too quickly or eagerly. You can dowse---know where to find what is essential.

{Thursday}  {Patience and Dowsing}

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Message for Wednesday 12 June 2019

Wednesday 12 June 2019

}Competition Tempered by Generosity{

Moon in Libra

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week continues until early Thursday morning

/moon goes void-of-course at 8:16a PT | 11:16a ET | 3:16p UT

until it enters Scorpio at 9:04p PT | 12:04a(Th) ET | 4:04a(Th) UT

Oh-oh, it's a "triple witching" day by the indications above. (No, not speaking of actual witches unless you are involved with some.) We need to calm down and keep our faith and long-term perspective. 

Is there plenty of supply for everyone? That is my belief and faith, yet today you may feel you are dueling in the woods over a casket of jewels and either you win or your opponent does. (Could this refer to the nonexistent [I hope] Justin Bieber--Tom Cruise fight?)

Yet you feel generous, although sensitive, and may wonder if your grand hopes have a solid basis in an insensitive world.

The hen scratching for her chicks yesterday is still scratching, so you are trying to provide for yourself and those dependent on you. Or someone is doing that for you.

At happy moments there can be concord and amity in "a garden of many-hued flowers." There is love of the fine arts and nature, and generosity toward animals and humans: "A young woman lying beneath a tree throws food to the birds which gather around her." Such geniality can overcome the "triple witching" let us hope. Reduced expectations could make for a kind of peaceful leveling.

The competitive spirit of paragraph 2 suggests that chance as well as skill will determine who wins. Not only money and luxuries are at stake but opinions: "A radical magazine" means that Twitter and Facebook messages will be brimming over with controversy and many will go off at tangents for no solid reason. Or we could calm down and approach real ethical-spiritual answers to our problems (in accord with the previous paragraph).

{Wednesday}  {Competition Tempered by Generosity|

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Message for Tuesday 11 June 2019

Tuesday 11 June 2019

}Wise Provision Within an Uplifting Atmosphere{

Moon in Libra

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week is with us, continuing until Thursday morning

< moon enters the Via Combusta at 7:08p PT | 10:08p ET | 2:08a(W) UT

(a 2.5 day period of questioning, doubt, or a need for reorientation during a cosmic reshuffling) (until early Friday)

It's a rare treat to deal with someone kindly, dignified and trustworthy. This is specially welcome when it seems one is being pressed hard by difficult circumstances. Finding one's way is possible, with help, especially during the next week before the coming Dark Hermetic Epoch beginning June 20 (for about two months). But today one might doubt that one knows the way.

One can secure provisions for oneself and those dependent, "A hen scratching for her chicks." This might involve more moving around in an unsettled way than usual.

The artistic and ornamental make things happier, with Luna in Libra and the symbol "A garden of many-hued flowers."

Securing provisions (like the hen) may be made less secure by a gambling or speculating tendency, or a sort of indifference about the ways money comes and goes. This is fine if it is a lack of greed and clinging, not so fine if it leads to loss. The life of a professional gambler is precarious, as all the songs tell us.

Still, there is a tendency toward meritorious action in accord with one's position and responsibility. This is a lesson of Saturn and the |difficult third|. Accompanying it is a ritualized enjoyment of the richness of living, with magical overtones. 

{Tuesday}  {Wise Provision Within an Uplifting Atmosphere}

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Message for Monday 10 June 2019

Monday 10 June 2019

\Coaxing the Marvelous/

Moon in Virgo-->Libra

/moon goes void-of-course at 5:02a PT | 8:02a ET | 12:02p UT

until it enters Libra at 5:30p PT | 8:30p ET | 12:30a(Tu) UT

Despite the 12-hour void-of-course period, this could be a positive day with strong results which are a blessing to you and all. "A red tree covered with golden fruit" is something special.

Organic life is surprisingly powerful, "The germ grows into knowledge and life." We unfold our powers through distinctive identities.

Restless partisanship is evident in politics and even if it seems superficial it gets people thinking---and let's hope a little wiser over the coming year-and-more of campaigning.

On the spiritual plane interesting things are happening. "Two men, well clad, are standing together, one holding a white horse by the bridle." There could be false dreams and disproportionate thinking, at the worst, but this does not have to happen. The white horse could symbolize spiritual knowledge and nobility. You connect with influential individuals, whatever their spiritual orientation.

At best, as Luna moves toward a trine with Venus and enters Aphrodite's sign late in the day, there can be luxury within creative stability, "The garden of the Tuileries." There is a Bohemian trend, tending to music, art and poetry, or songs with their harmonies and lyrics. Tastes are refined, and one could roam toward the marvelous.

{Monday}  /Coaxing the Marvelous\

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Message for Sunday 9 June 2019

Sunday 9 June 2019

\Seeking Protective Security/

Moon in Virgo

When not feeling like doing any work--and it's Sunday after all--we might relax so far as to be open to deleterious influences. Higher and more friendly influences are available if we tune in with them.

When weak, we need some solid system of justice, fairness or orderliness to which to adhere so that our lives don't become formless. We can borrow such a system from someone or some instruction we believe in.

People when restless may become partisan, trying to influence others. The "man in the act of distributing papers among a multitude of people" may be, in this age, a Tweeter or a Facebook propagandist. Could it be you or I? Charubel says that he is "a reformer on a small scale, but very superficial." A Facebook friend? 

More perilous indications warn against feeling abandoned, rejected, and helpless: "A woman standing in an attitude of dejection covers her naked breast with the hair of her head." There could be sorrow, desertion, and blighted hopes. Let us hope it is not that bad for many. In the planets this could be the forming opposition of Mercury and Mars with Saturn and Pluto, plus the very tight T square of the Sol-Jupiter opposition with Neptune in Pisces, a weepy sign when afflicted. Wondering if someone is friend or foe can be an affliction when Neptune is involved in hard aspects. One wants to trust but is wary. 

"A glass-bottomed boat in still water" could mean, Take your time. Be curious and detached. Observe for a while before taking any perilous action. Life is interesting, even when we feel someone is untrue to us, or misunderstands unkindly or thoughtlessly. Watch what's going on with people as if they were fish behind the glass. 

The most pleasing symbol is that of flowers growing beneath the protection of a tree, indicating sincere and advantageous friendships. Someone of a noble and magnanimous nature is protecting you. This could be both visibly and invisibly. You may do the same for someone else. Being trustful in an appropriate way draws one toward security and prosperity. 

{Sunday}  /Seeking Protective Security\

Cosmic Piper

Spiritual message for healing, redemption, fulfillment

Message from Sri Sathya Sai Baba

God's Sure Good by Dr. John (who passed away last week) (catch his whispered words to G*d at the end)

Message for Saturday 8 June 2019

Saturday 8 June 2019

^Splendor of Intellect and Body^

Moon in Leo-->Virgo

/moon goes void-of-course at 2:24p PT | 5:24p ET | 9:24p UT

until it enters Virgo at 2:46p PT | 5:46p ET | 9:46p UT (just 22 minutes later)

[Note: For anyone who is confused about void-of-course and zodiacs, we use the standard zodiac that Western astrologers have used for centuries, which the ancient Greek astrologers used, based upon the actual relation of the earth to the sun, that is, on the earth's orbit. It begins with Aries on March 21, approximately, and the twelve pie-slices of the heavens called the twelve signs follow along mathematically. Quite literally, they are divisions of the earth's orbit around the sun based on the cardinal points or the four seasons, the equinoxes and solstices. They have nothing to do with the twelve constellations of stars which were at one time coincident with the "tropical" signs we use but have not been for centuries. I and virtually all Western astrologers use this "tropical" rather than "stellar" zodiac for one reason:  It works!  I and many others have tested both zodiacs according to the characteristics of the twelve signs and their planetary rulers. The tropical zodiac wins, hands down. There are always new books or articles coming out saying "Wow, the signs are all wrong, they don't fit with the constellations!" as if this were some kind of new discovery! The writers of these ridiculous things are just out to make money. They don't know classical astrology. For example, if you are an Aries but think you have more of the characteristics of Pisces, therefore the stellar zodiac must be correct, you may very well have Mercury and/or Venus in tropical Pisces, for those two planets are always very close to the sun. You might also have tropical Pisces rising. Only a careful examination of the whole horoscope can resolve such questions. Or, if you want to use the stellar zodiac the way most Hindu or Vedic astrologers do, that is your choice, but I seriously believe it is a mistake. Obama, Clinton, and Mussolini were Leo, the Lion sign, ruled by the sun, the king sign; they were not Cancer, the moon sign. That is just one tiny example of what one can find through research, and especially if one uses not just the sun-sign but the moon-sign and the signs of all the planets. Al Morrison, who popularized the void-of-course indication (though it was known to William Lilly and all European astrologers) used the tropical zodiac in determining it, as I do, and he believed in it because he found during his work in a government intelligence agency that no serious discoveries or reliable conclusions were ever arrived at during the void-of-course periods. Had he used the stellar zodiac, the results would have been totally skewed.]

Saturday:  A love of luxury and desire to be waited on by servants mixes with an intellectual attempt to measure and judge everything through mental brilliance. "A dark man, richly appareled and surrounded by courtiers, reclines on a couch."

For whatever it is worth, Charubel says that "the number six" rules the degree wherein the sun transits. It is a point of skill in mental employments, though the sun's square with Neptune may show that dualities are difficult, that is, choosing between opposites or contradictory methods. Maybe the "six" means that there are more than two ways of doing things, so one could multiply one's choices and gain real insight.

That seems re-emphasized by "A man before a square with a manuscript scroll before him." Profound wisdom could be gained if one faces the squares or obstacles in life with the help of the manuscript, which as a scroll is circular, suggesting "the squaring of the circle," or circling of the square, or some spiraling realization.

There are other indications of an ability to execute one's schemes (be an executive) and procure what is needed. This is a challenge, with Mars opposing Saturn in its own tough-as-nails sign Capricorn, but one could persist and win.

"A peacock parading on an ancient lawn" is something like the richly appareled man attended by courtiers. Beauty and glory are sometimes their own reason for being. 

{Saturday}  ^Splendor of Intellect and Body^

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Message for Friday 7 June 2019

Friday 7 June 2019

^Moderated Action with Pleasing Prospects^

Moon in Leo

Tyrants, or those with tyrannical dispositions, take pleasure in power apart from its uses and aims. Those who seek more subtle and spiritual powers are cognizant of the Will of the Supreme as dominating themselves and all: "A square containing twelve small squares, resembling the breastplate of the Jewish high priest." High spiritual magic is possible only when the material, geometric or algorithmic formulas of it are subordinate to correct motive and purpose. 

Organizing effort and overcoming obstacles on a physical level is also needed: "Men cutting through ice." What the priest divines as the correct move is carried out by these valiant laborers. 

Somewhere else there is "A group of people who have overeaten and enjoyed it." (This correlates with the sun's opposition with Jupiter, sometimes the planet of "too much.") As we all have found, indulging appetites to excess does not expand health and self-respect but disintegrates it. Satiety has its place when it knows itself to be satiety rather than a pause within further gargantuan gorging. 

It's Friday and lunar aspects are mostly smooth, with Luna in Leo, sign of youth and glory. One symbol nevertheless warns of going too far carelessly: "A broken pitcher lying on the ground with spilled fruit around it." (Or this might be, possibly, "spilling secrets.")

A desire to dominate people has a bit of arrogance and sadism within it. It is better to get on with what one knows to be one's assigned project. If one has chosen a mission and its tasks carefully, one's capabilities rise to the occasion, and someone needed as temporary working partner will turn up at the right time. 

[Friday} ^Moderated Action with Pleasing Prospects^

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Message for Thursday 6 June 2019

Thursday 6 June 2019

^The Patience of Maturity^

Moon in Cancer-->Leo

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week continues until very early Friday

/moon goes void-of-course at 7:11a PT | 10:11a ET | 2:11p UT

until it enters Leo at 12:17p PT | 3:17p ET | 7:17p UT

Purposes and hopes in the clouds? So might say a skeptic. But if one is working for one's community as well as oneself, one's deeds benefit all. One becomes a "lover of peace and good works."

"A very old man facing a vast dark space to the northeast" suggests that we want to confront the meaning of life, and find how to realize our immortality. This is a soulful preoccupation. (The image might even have a literal application: It was in the symbols Wednesday also, and I had three hours of problems with my internet connection, very serious, and the router is exactly northeast of my computer! "A vast dark space" indeed: "No Internet" was the message on the screen. You might consider what is northeast of you at home or at work or wherever you spend time.)

Organized effort to procure things is emphasized. What looks impossible becomes possible when obstacles are faced and overcome: "Men cutting through ice." Hard work with little immediate result may prepare better things ahead: "A man sitting upon his heels and breaking stones with a hammer." At least life is usually not as hard as that! Back to being "a lover of peace and good works." 

We may have visions of pie in the sky, with great popularity and material success, but shrink from the "cutting through ice" or "breaking stones" to get it. So we settle for whatever we accept as our "speed." "A woman pursued by mature romance" may have to persuade herself that this romance is possible and not illusion. Otherwise she might miss an opportunity. 

{Thursday}  ^The Patience of Maturity^

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Message for Wednesday 5 June 2019

Wednesday 5 June 2019

~Masterful Success Comes Slowly~  

Moon in Cancer

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week continues (until early Friday). It is at its peak this afternoon and evening, so we need to be aware of moods swinging toward depression or despair, and prevent that if we can. (We have made mistakes but do not have to do that in the future or carry them as an endless burden.)

By being patient and thrifty much slow success is feasible. Still, one might feel active, restless, and self-willed, with Luna conjoined to Mars. And so one may not appreciate what one has amid eagerness to do something hasty and superficial.

Therefore it is good to calm down and take the long view, even the eternal one:  "A very old man facing a vast dark space to the northeast." One finds in the invisible a sanction for one's souls deeper purposes.

Those could involve secret knowledge, not that one wishes to hide it but that it cannot be conveyed easily to anyone. "Two triangles interlaced, with a third superposed" is a degree of Mastery. Both the Jews and the ancient East Indians (much earlier) adopted the six-pointed star, or interlaced triangles, as a sacred symbol. This might have some literal application, or some mystery connected with six or nine, mathematically or geometrically, might be fruitful. (Push seven marbles or coins or oranges together and see what happens.)

Brilliance of a mental sort does not necessarily lead to wisdom. There could be confusion by trying to study or absorb too much in an unintegrated manner. Too many books or too many open tabs. This could be vexation--maybe while chasing pointless details something burns on the stove!

Contrasted with that approach, "A Native American woman selling beads" just focuses in a detached way on her vocation, not fussing but waiting for someone to come along and buy a necklace or bracelet. Someone always does. No hurry, no worry. 

Still, she might some day find a vein of gold when prospecting for natural materials to use in her beads: "An alchemist at work in his laboratory. Upon his table is much gold." Or that could be you. By industry or invention you succeed in an eccentric vocation even beyond your hopes. 

{Wednesday}  ~Masterful Success Comes Slowly~

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Message for Tuesday 4 June 2019

Tuesday 4 June 2019

~Individual Mastery and Pride Within Community~  

Moon in Gemini-->Cancer

/moon goes void-of-course at 8:43a PT | 11:43a ET | 3:43p UT

until it enters Cancer at 9:18a PT | 12:18p ET | 4:18p UT

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week begins at 1:37p PT | 4:37p ET | 8:37p UT (until Friday)

People cannot be forced to be what you want them to be. 

A brilliant thinker or researcher works alone silently. He or she deals with complex, structured, almost geometrical factors. (Or maybe, as language goes now, "algorithms.")

Balancing and harmonizing physical and mental forces results in mastery.

Those with special abilities may become wily and acquisitive. They use doubtful means to plunder the world. "A man in a mask stands beneath the shadow of a tree at night. At his feet there is a dead cow." Facebook? Google? 

Haughtiness and pride can bring downfall; "pride goeth before a fall." 

Yet the common realm, the community, still lies before us to be enjoyed (Facebook and Google are public utilities, as it were, which you and I are benefiting from right now). "A large well-kept pubic park" might be online as well as out in the budding, buzzing green world. It provides a venue for mental, physical and social recreation. Picnic anyone? State dinner in London?

{Tuesday}  ~Individual Mastery and Pride Within Community~

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Message for Monday 3 June 2019

Monday 3 June 2019

}Self-Command{

Moon in Gemini

New Moon of Gemini occurs at 3:03a PT | 6:03a ET | 10:03a UT

There is a fine but important line between letting people use you and being genuinely kind to them.  

You could drift too much, being "nice" but not attaining anything. Amusement is one thing; solid purpose another.

Rather than walking in circles one could take firm control with determination and self-responsibility.

Voracity and self-seeking are normal, to a degree, unless degenerating into the merely selfish and animal: "Two wolves devouring a carcass in the moonlight." Someone demonstrating such propensities could take advantage of you. A "wayfaring and deceitful" person could take command of your life in some ways unless you are careful. 

On the other hand, fear may be a matter of unnecessary distrust. Once one has settled on someone as trustworthy it is well to keep trusting except in really dire situations. There is a flavor of new beginnings with the New Moon. A young male may symbolize that in your life. Yet you are the one who has to demonstrate self-command and determination. 

{Monday}  {Self-Command}  

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Message for Sunday 2 June 2019

Sunday 2 June 2019

}Sufficiency{

Moon in Taurus-->Gemini

/moon is void-of-course

until it enters Gemini at 4:49a PT | 7:49a ET | 11:49a UT

How does one move something from here to there, or there to here? This is the science and art of mechanics or dynamics. It has some value and application. Costs involved with moving or traveling may be evaluated. One might also figure how to lift things to an appropriate height.

Someone who has a spiritual influence on your career, or inspires it, is helping you, visibly or invisibly, to materialize your aspirations and ambitions. 

It is not good to doubt people who have been trustworthy in the past, even if there are disagreements with them. They could help you walk over a bridge into something good if you do not distrust that bridge. Perhaps there is weariness connected with the final day of an Old Moon (the New comes tomorrow).

Possibilities about which you have been hopeful may seem in doubt, but it is good to be detached while waiting for things to straighten out. Contentment is a seldom practiced virtue. 

A seeming collapse could come because one has aimed too high, temporarily. It is wise to be slow in building success, often.

One can preserve and rejoice in what one already has. Your "jewelry shop" is filled with rewards and luxuries you have earned in one way or another. That is enough for now.

{Sunday}  {Sufficiency}

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